Beautiful Work 2 Black Wires And 1 Red
Change the light switch that operates on both sides of the wall.
2 black wires and 1 red. Answered in 48. The 2 white are obviously your neutrals your blacks are 120v in from breaker and out to other outlets. Because the nec specifies the colors only for ground and neutral wires electricians are free to wire the hot leg in a circuit with wires of any other color.
Do i connect it to the other black wire with a wire nut and run 1 black from there into the outlet. T read more. The red is the interesting wire.
Without this unknown red. I pulled the receptacle that i thought was the lead and found 6 wires inside. None are hot unless the other light switch is turned on in which one of the reds is hot.
And ground is of course ground. In the standard wire color code the hot wire in a cable with two conductors plus ground is black and the extra hot wire in a three conductor set is red. Connect the black wire to either of the brass screws on the outlet it doesn t matter which one and the red wire to the other brass screw.
This is an older house circa 1967 and the wiring appears to be all over the place. Connect the white wire to the chrome terminal and the ground wire which is bare or green to the ground terminal. 2 blacks wires hot lead 1 red wire relay.
If you get a reading the black wire is hot. In this case both the red and black wires are hot and connect directly to the circuit breaker in the main panel. If you get a reading the black wire is hot.